Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors . |
| 2 | It was over a week since the children had been removed , and both police and the Social Work Department had said they had made independent investigations which had led to their decision to take such drastic action . |
| 3 | I got a DOPACS report saying he 'd worked thirteen shifts out of fourteen . |
| 4 | Dr Woodall , 32 , denied this , saying he had produced 80,000 bottles of the non-alcoholic elderflower drink without anyone confusing it with champagne . |
| 5 | Astonishingly he defended his policy of imposing sky high 36.3 per cent rates , saying it had cut unauthorised loans by almost a third in a year . |
| 6 | E&Y vehemently denied the allegations , saying it had provided adequate warning of the plan 's collapse , and claiming that the suit was filed in order to deflect criticism away from the insurance commissioner . |
| 7 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
| 8 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 9 | And there was a memo to John from yourself , tenth of Jan , that my manager has passed to me , it said you 'd given two options that you could go in on Saturday and erm |
| 10 | Mrs Cass , who was in a wheelchair in court and had breaks to be given oxygen , said she had suffered four heart attacks since the RSPCA became involved with her dogs . |
| 11 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 12 | At one stage , she said she had experienced some conflict ‘ like being in two places at once ’ but soon realized that her real attachment was to her adoptive parents . |
| 13 | Mrs Lamb said she had expected tougher action . |
| 14 | Alyson , of Hazel Court , Middlesbrough , said she had had minor illnesses , but had always gone to school . |
| 15 | She got a lodger and she , the lodger said she 'd made five phone calls . |
| 16 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 17 | After 6 months of specialist treatment here at the National Spinal Injuries Unit , doctors said they 'd made miraculous progress . |
| 18 | When Twoflower said they 'd got better kind of magic in the Empire I thought — I thought … ’ |
| 19 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
| 20 | er and Sharon never alt er cancelled that , well they come out and they said they 'd had Chinese flu so when I went into and had me chest done , I says I 've got the flu like , she says yeah she said I says I , I know , I said they 've got that Chinese flu she 's be |
| 21 | Mr Banerjee said only the would-be bomber had been killed , but witnesses and other railway officials said they had seen four bodies on the platform . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 23 | Anthony Smith , of the Consumers ' Association , said they had received 21 complaints about the machines — 12 of them describing serious fires . |
| 24 | After independence people said they had despised Italian shaikhs . |
| 25 | Cross-examined by Anthony Morris , QC , defending , he said they had become close friends through their shared interest in scouting and had become lovers about three months before her death . |
| 26 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days , and said they had found glowing ash as evidence that papers had been destroyed . |
| 27 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 28 | Almost a third admitted doing no work in an average day and more than half said they had used soft drugs . |
| 29 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 30 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |